假如你是李华，现在美国某高中做交流生。你因受伤在家休养。这期间有不少同学曾来看望、鼓励你。现在你已接近康复，请给他们写一封感谢信表达你的谢意，内容包括:
1. 回忆同学们为你做的事；
2. 表达你的感谢之情；
3. 介绍你的康复情况。
注意:1. 词数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear classmates,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sincerely grateful,
Li Hua
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Learning 1. new language is not easy, but a Chinese in Washington D.C. says he knows how to make it less 2.(difficulty). Li Lei teaching Chinese to children says, “The magic key to 3.(teach) a language is culture.”
Li came to Washington through the State Department’s Teachers of Critical Language Program, which brings teachers from China and Egypt to America. One of the goals of the program is 4.(help) American students learn Chinese and Arabic.
The program helps the teachers and students learn about the 5.(culture) of other countries. Li says learning languages helps students learn 6.(much) about the world.
Spanish is the native language of many of Li’s students at Cooke Elementary School, so many of 7.(they) are learning English and Chinese at the same time.
Li 8.(explore) the local Chinese community and many other cultures in Washington so far. He says the children at the school, some of 9. are as young as five years old, might not remember all of the Chinese characters he teaches them, and that they might even forget his name. And he hopes that they will always remember him 10. a teacher they liked and respected.
“None of us get out of life alive, so be brave and be thankful for all the opportunities (机会)you have.” Those were ____ words said by 18-year-old Jake Bailey, a cancer patient.
Bailey was in the leading position of the Students’ Union. The young man had planned to____ at his high school’s end-of-year ceremony (典礼)on schedule. ____, just the week before, he received shocking ____. After several weeks of not feeling well, tests showed that he had a fast-growing form of cancer. Doctors said, without ____, he would only have weeks to live, so they didn’t ____ him to take part in the event. But Bailey put on his school uniform along with his ____ face and left his hospital bed to give the inspiring speech to his ____. Without doubt, his surprise appearance ____ everyone at the ceremony. Sitting in the wheelchair, he began to ____ his ideas. He expressed that a strong-willed person would not easily ____, no matter how hard life was.
At the speech, Bailey encouraged his schoolmates to ____ their time. “The future is truly in our hands. ____ about having impractical long-term dreams. Let’s be ____to short-term goals ,” He____. “We don’t know where we might end up, or when we will end up, so work with pride on what is ____ us.”
When the senior ____ his speech with the school’s ____, “Altiora Peto,” which means “I fight for higher things”, the entire room burst into cheers.____, Bailey’s message was heard loud and clear. Bailey then closed his eyes and ____ the words “Thank you”.
1.A. unbelievable B. genuine C. inspiring D. amazing
2.A. speak B. chat C. sing D. debate
3.A. so B. Instead C. Besides D. However
4.A. fault B. attack C. news D. pain
5.A. doubt B. hope C. treatment D. delay
6.A. persuade B. allow C. warn D. organize
7.A. determined B. frightened C. satisfied D. surprised
8.A. friends B. family C. schoolmates. D. roommates
9.A. amused B. shocked C. affected D. frightened
10.A. explain B. form C. share D. change
11.A. turn up B. give in C. break up D. cut down
12.A. gain B. treasure C. spend D. spare
13.A. Talk B. Forget C. Care D. Dream
14.A. devoted B. limited C. admitted D. lost
15.A. continued B. reminded C. sighed D. cried
16.A. in place of B. in front of C. in charge of D. in search of
17.A. replaced B. ended C. began D. decorated
18.A. motto. B. principle C. rule D. opinion
19.A. Finally B. Obviously C. Actually D. Entirely
20.A. mouthed B. typed C. recorded D. wrote
Tips to fight summer weight gain
When we think of summer, most of us think of outdoor fun. So it seems like we should naturally lose weight over the summer—not gain it. 1. Lots of summer activities can work against our efforts to stay at a healthy weight. The good news is that it’s easy to avoid problems if we know what to look out for.
Get going with goals. When we don’t have a plan, it’s easy to spend summer moving from couch to computer, with regular stops at the fridge. 2. Just be sure to plan for some downtime so you can relax a little!
3. With school out, we lose our daily routines. If you don’t have a specific job or activity to get up for, it’s easy to sleep late, watch too much TV, and snack more than usual. Make sure your summer days have some structure — like getting up at the same time each day and eating meals at set times. Plan activities for specific times, like exercising before breakfast, for example. If you have time on your hands, offer to make dinner a couple of nights a week so your family can enjoy a sit-down meal together.
Think about what and how you eat. Summer means picnics and barbecues — activities that revolve around an unlimited spread of food. Pace yourself. Don’t overload your plate. Avoid going back for seconds and thirds. Choose seasonal, healthy foods like fresh fruit instead of high-sugar, high-fat desserts. 4.
Stay busy. 5. In addition to helping you avoid the cookie jar, filling your days with stuff to do can give you a sense of accomplishment. That’s especially true if a dream summer job or planned activity fell through. Limit your screen time — including TV, computer, and video games — to no more than 2 hours a day.
A. Stick to a schedule.
B. Plan more activities.
C. Appropriate summer eating sets you up on the right track!
D. Most of us, however, don’t take summer weight gain seriously.
E. In reality, though, summer isn’t all about beach volleyball and water sports.
F. When we’re bored, it’s easy to fall into a trap of doing nothing and then feeling low on energy.
G. Avoid this by setting a specific aim, like volunteering, mastering a new skill, or working at a job.
Recently, a 1935 letter in which Ernest Hemingway detailed his catch of a 500lb blue marlin(青枪鱼), an adventure that is believed to have partly inspired his novel The Old Man and the Sea, has been sold for﹩28，000 (£22，000).
The handwritten letter was sent by Hemingway on 8 May to the fishing editor of the Miami Herald, telling in great detail how the author and his friend Henry Strater battled to keep sharks away from the marlin after catching it off the Bahamian island of Bimini.
Nate D Sanders, the auction(拍卖)company which sold the letter, said it documented for the first time in Hemingway's own words not only the size of the marlin, but also the attack by sharks, reflecting the plot of the novel.
The company added that Hemingway's account of the marlin catch differed from other anecdotes(轶事) of it, one of which described Hemingway using a machine gun on the sharks, which is said to have attracted more sharks rather than frightened them away.
The Old Man and the Sea was also inspired by an anecdote told by Hemingway's Cuban friend Carlos Gutierrez. In 1936, Hemingway wrote in a magazine that Carlos had told him about an old fisherman who caught a great marlin alone.
Three years later, Hemingway told his editor Max Perkins that he was planning a short story about the old commercial fisherman who fought the swordfish all alone in his sailing boat. Instead, he ended up writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, not returning to the story about the old fisherman until January 1951. It won him the Pulitzer in 1953, and was specifically mentioned when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
1.What did the auction company stress when selling the 1935 letter？
A. The style of the writer. B. The history of the letter.
C. The contents of the letter. D. The popularity of the writer.
2.What inspired Hemingway to write The Old Man and The Sea besides his own adventure？
A. Henry Strater's account. B. Carlos Gutierrez's story.
C. Max Perkins' life experience. D. Nate D Sanders' description.
3.Which is the correct order of time for the following facts in the passage?
1. Hemingway wrote a letter to describe his adventure.
2. Hemingway caught a big blue marlin.
3. The letter was sold at auction.
4. The Old Man and The Sea won the Nobel Prize.
A. ①③②④ B. ②①④③ C. ②④①③ D. ②③①④
Chinese scientists recently have produced two monkeys with the same gene, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, using the same technique that gave us Dolly the sheep. These monkeys are not actually the first primates(灵长类)to be cloned. Another one named Tetra was produced in the late 1990s by embryo(胚胎)splitting, the division of an early-stage embryo into two or four separate cells to make clones. By contrast, they were each made by replacing an egg cell nucleus(卵原子核)with DNA from a differentiated body cell. This Dolly method, known as somatic(躯体的) cell nuclear transfer(SCNT), can create more clones and allows researchers greater control over the edits they make to the DNA.
Success came from adopting several new techniques. These included a new type of microscopy(显微术) to better view the cells during handling or using several materials that encourage cell reprogramming, which hadn’t been tried before on primates. Still, the research process proved difficult, and many attempts by the team failed. Just two healthy baby monkeys born from more than 60 tested mothers. This leads to many researchers’ pouring water on the idea that the team’s results bring scientists closer to cloning humans. They thought this work is not a stepping stone to establishing methods for obtaining live born human clones. Instead, this clearly remains a very foolish thing to attempt, and it would be far too inefficient, far too unsafe, and it is also pointless.
But the scientists involved emphasize that this is not their goal. There is now no barrier for cloning primate species, thus cloning humans is closer to reality. However, their research purpose is entirely for producing non-human primate models for human diseases; they absolutely have no intention, and society will not permit this work to be extended to humans. Despite limitations, they treat this breakthrough as a novel model system for scientists studying human biology and disease.
1.What do we know about the technology called SCNT?
A. It created the first primates.
B. It may contribute to editing the DNA.
C. It can divide an early-stage embryo into several cells.
D. It produced two cloned monkeys with different genes.
2.What does the author mean by “pouring water on the idea” in paragraph 2?
A. Keeping a hot topic of it. B. Paying no attention to it.
C. Having a low opinion of it. D. Adding supportive evidence to it.
3.What is the scientists’ purpose to clone these monkeys?
A. To prepare for their research on human cloning.
B. To serve as a stepping stone to their reputation.
C. To help with the study of human diseases.
D. To clone other animals for scientific use.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Cloning humans is already on its way.
B. New techniques seem to be pointless.
C. Society won’t agree to clone another monkey.
D. The success rate of this cloning of monkey was not high.
